News
14/05/2012
For the past years the Serbian people and government have been working tirelessly towards EU Accession. Under the leadership of the Democratic Party (DS) Serbia has met all the criteria set down by the EU in order to achieve Candidate Status.
11/05/2012
The Party of European Socialists (PES) today (12h00) launched its flagship campaign “Your future is my future - A European Youth Guarantee now!”, which aims to tackle the crisis of youth unemployment in Europe. Currently, 5.6 million young Europeans are jobless, more than the entire population of Denmark. This inactivity costs Europe 100 billion euro every year. A European Youth guarantee, as being proposed by the PES could be supported by 10 billion euros from EU structural funds. This funding could help bring 2 million young people out of unemployment by 2014.
10/05/2012
On 9 May PES activists organized a flashmob under the theme “people first”, demonstrating with posters and flags in Barcelona, Berlin, Bruxelles, London, Ljubljana, Luxembourg, Milan, Rome, Sofia and Stockholm.
09/05/2012
The second round of the Serbian Presidential elections will take place on May 20th between Boris Tadic (Democratic Party) and Tomislav Nikolic (Serbian Progressive Party). The PES believes that Boris Tadic is the obvious candidate to lead Serbia in the coming years.
08/05/2012
This Friday at 12h00 (11 May), join us if you can, as the Party of European Socialists (PES) together with ECOSY – European Young Socialists and PES Women launch the campaign “Your future is my future – a European Youth Guarantee now!” in Brussels.
06/05/2012
The Party of European Socialists (PES) warmly congratulates François Hollande on his election as the 24th President of the French Republic. His election is a victory for progress in France and in Europe.
04/05/2012
The UK local elections results have seen major increases in Labour Party votes as Conservatives and Liberals suffer huge losses. The Labour Party increased their number of Council seats by a stunning 50%.
03/05/2012
The Party of European Socialists (PES) has welcomed the decision to make Victor Ponta the Prime Minister designate of Romania. Mr. Ponta (speaking in the video hereunder at a PES event on the need to reject Austerity Only policies in Romania) has announced his cabinet, made up of representatives from the coalition the Social Liberal Union (USL). He and his new administration are expected to be endorsed by the Romanian Parliament on Monday. Mr. Ponta will lead the caretaker government until the parliamentary elections scheduled for November 2012.
30/04/2012
The Party of European Socialists (PES) will use the traditional 1 May Labour Day to highlight the need for a European Wide “Youth Guarantee”. 5.6 million young people are unemployed in the European Union, with Spanish and Greek rates of youth unemployment over 50%. The PES proposal is to use EU structural funds to allow 2 million young people a chance to avoid the crisis of unemployment.
25/04/2012
Speaking on the future of the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA), PES President Sergei Stanishev said “it was time other parties listened to citizens and finally joined the PES on the pledge to shelve ACTA once and for all”.
